Suspect under arrest escapes from squad car

November 10, 2004

ST. CHARLES AREA — An Arlington Heights man escaped from a Kane County sheriff's squad car Tuesday morning while being detained in a domestic disturbance but was captured about an hour later in a forest preserve near the Fox River, officials said.

JohnnyWilliams, 43, of Arlington Heights, was cuffed with his hands behind his back and seated in the back seat of a sheriff's squad car with the doors locked, authorities said. The squad car was parked in Valley View, an unincorporated area north of St. Charles on the east side of the Fox River.

While two police officers were inside a house talking with a woman who said Williams threatened to attack her with a knife and brass knuckles, he climbed through an opening in the plastic window between the front and back seats and exited through a front door, said Cmdr. John Marszalek of the Kane County Sheriff's Department.